Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inspire our sympathy; but in the end he goes away unrewarded. The wife, frustrated in her quest for security, thrives on honesty so it is natural to assume that she once was in love with him; but there is never any hint of this. Husband number two, attentive and mild-mannered, is a model of stability; but quite inexplicably, he maliciously slays his step-child's pet duck...
September weather in Moscow is mild, but for Indonesia's President Sukarno there was evidently a chill in the air. "I come from ... a warm climate where it is not so cold as it is here," he told Soviet bigwigs, "but . . . your smiles have warmed me." The little President of the big and uncommitted republic of Southeast Asia flashed a friendly grin as he skipped through the Distinguished Visitors Routine (TIME, Sept. 17), but the grin was full of ambiguity. At a mass meeting in Moscow, sandwiched between effusive compliments, was a message that must have sounded strange...
From the start of the Suez Canal crisis six weeks ago, the U.S. has been the patient, quieting influence, calming those in Britain and France who talked of force. It was U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles who mustered 18 maritime nations behind a mild U.S. plan to put the key waterway under a form of international supervision while acknowledging Egypt's ownership. Dulles sent the State Department's ace Middle East troubleshooter, Loy Henderson, to Cairo on a five-nation committee "to present and explain" the U.S. plan to Egypt's President Nasser...
From a mirrored salon in the ornate Hotel Matignon, official residence of France's Premiers, mild-mannered Socialist Guy Mollet last week cried out to his countrymen: "I ask every Frenchman to do his duty, to subscribe for Algeria and for France!" In these heroic words Premier Mollet imposed a sweet wartime sacrifice on France's citizens-the moral ob ligation to do a good piece of business at government expense...
...figures secret, remained silent. But in succeeding months word some how drifted from Bogota to Manhattan's coffee-trading Front Street that torrential rains had cut deeply into Colombia's maturing crop. Roasters and brokers, caught with low inventories and suddenly aware that a shortage of mild beans for blending could be crippling, bid up the price from 63? to 80? a Ib. Colombia's mild coffee, which customarily commands 4^ or 5^ more than Brazil's standard grades, now brings a fat 20? differential. And the rain damage seems to have been vastly overstated...